Month: August 2009

Crankypantsing

Pure. Comedy. Gold.

Shelly

Big Brother rant ahoy!

Background for those who haven’t seen the show: A bunch of strangers are locked-down in a house, and they have to vote out one person each week. The last one standing wins. This week, Chima was Head of Household, so she nominated two people for eviction. Jeff was given the power to nullify those nominations and put up two people of his choosing. Chima got pissed off. Yes, I can understand being disappointed that your nominations weren’t going to stand, but if the tables were turned, she would have done the same thing as Jeff. It would have made no sense for Jeff not to use the power given to him. Not using it would have likely resulted in him being voted out of the house the following week, because Chima’s alliance was too large and strong. So Jeff did the smart thing and replaced Chima’s nominations with two people from Chima’s alliance. This resulted in St. Jesse the Bully being evicted. Good riddance!

Better than Jesse getting booted, though, was the wake that Jesse’s alliance threw for him after he left. As if the guy died! I laughed so hard that I gave myself asthma.

That is some damnfinegood television! They’re mourning a total douchebag and bully, someone who tried to stab all of them in the back at different times. I’m not sure which part is best.

  1. The weeping
  2. Chima saying “If it wouldn’t have been for [Jesse] I wouldn’t be here” (conveniently forgetting for a moment that Jesse put her up for eviction)
  3. Kevin’s eye rolling at the women’s pityfest
  4. The comment that “He was so grateful for being here”
  5. The comment that Jesse had “such a good spirit”
  6. The comment that he never said anything bad about anyone in the game
  7. The talk about how Jesse prayed for everyone all the time

And just let me say that Jordan seems about as sweet as can be. She reminds me of a friend from college who would be the first to admit that she is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In other ways, though, she’s brilliant, especially in her ability to read people. Funny as hell, too.

And o gross! I nearly choked when Lydia called Jesse “Mr. Pectacular.” That’s just wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrongity-wrong, wrong, wrong.

My Garden, Photography

Sweet William

Shelly

DSCN0239
Dianthus

I can’t believe this poor little thing is still flowering. It’s in deep shade and was crowded out by a bunch of other plants. I stepped on it, because I didn’t know it was there, and when I did finally see it, I nearly pulled it, thinking it was a weed. And I still don’t know where it came from. I didn’t plant it. It must have hitched a ride on something I transplanted from Ms. Lea’s garden.

It’s the little flower that could!

Uncategorized

Temporarily Crowned

Shelly

I got a temporary crown this morning. The permanent one should be ready in a couple of weeks, but the first Friday appointment they had was on 9/11. I’m not superstitious. Much.

Now, if the Novocaine would just wear off. She had to give me a second dose because that tooth was really, really sensitive, and even then, I could still feel her working on it. It didn’t hurt, but it felt uncomfortable. I don’t want to imagine what it would’ve felt like if I hadn’t had the second shot.

Crankypantsing

Facebook is Creepy

Shelly

I am so uncool that I have never had a MySpace account, and only just now set up one for Facebook. I’m generally ambivalent about social networking sites. I just don’t tend to utilize them very well, so why bother? But I was invited to join FB, so I did. Aieee! The last step? It gives you a list of folks you might want to friend. What does it draw on to create this list?! I am totally and completely creeped out by it. It listed folks I’ve never interacted with online, but whom I know in real life. Family members with different last names. People I’ve interacted with in other fora, but using different email addresses. People I do not know, but judging from their names (not the same as mine!), may be distantly related to.

Srsly, srsly creeped out here. I realize that there is deep data mining and traffic tracking going on, but somehow, this seems more invasive than I would’ve expected.